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Biographical History of North Carolina, Vol 7
by Samuel A'Court Ashe
pub. Charles L. Van Noppen, Greensboro, N.C. - 1908


    [p. 12-13]

                          CLARK MOULTON AVERY
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           COLONEL CLARK MOULTON AVERY was born October 3, 1819, and died
        June 19, 1864, of wounds received at the Wilderness.  His left arm
        was amputated soon after the battle, and when his broken right leg
        was being cut off, some weeks later, he died under the operation.
        He was the second of the six sons of COLONEL ISAAC T. and HARRIET
        E. AVERY that lived to years of maturity.
           He was a graduate of the Univeristy of North Carolina and a man
        of the most pleasing address.  He was fond of the society of young
        people, entered with zest into their amusements, and was a great
        favorite with the boys.  He did not desire office, though he was
        one of the most popular and probably the most influential man in
        Burke County.  He had strong convictions upon all questions, and
        invariably acted upon them in elections.  He was prevailed upon by
        his friends to run for the convention at the election on Feburary
        28, 1861, and was elected a delegate over one of the most popular
        Unionists in the county by an overwhelming majority.  The delegates
        elected did not meet, however, because a small majority of the
        electors of the State voted "no convention."
           He was made captain of the first company formed in the county,
        which became Company G of the Bethel regiment and was engaged in
        the first battle of the civil war.  When that company was mustered
        out of service, at the end of six months, he was appointed by the
        governor of the State lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty-third regi-
        ment, of which GENERAL L. O'B. BRANCH was colonel.  BRANCH was soon
        commissioned as brigadier-general, and AVERY became colonel of his
        regiment.  His commission as colonel was dated early in 1862.  He
        was captured with about half of his regiment at New Bern, in 1862,
        and was kept in prison on Johnson's Island, Ohio, until October of
        that year.
           His regiment was the equal in drill and discipline of any in the
        army. Under his command it came up to the full measure of its duty,
        and made a history from New Bern to Appomattox of which the State
        should be proud.  It was the only regiment in the division to which
        it belonged that was in line ready to meet the sudden onset of the
        enemy at the Wilderness when GRANT advanced at the dawn of the day.
        The other regiments had stacked their arms, and the men were many
        of them lying down on the ground asleep.  In the attempt, without
        support, to check the advance of the enemy he received the wounds
        that caused his death.
           No man in the county was kinder or more charitable to those in
        want.  It was one of his greatest pleasures to dispense an unstint-
        ed hospitality and to exert all his powers to contribute to the en-
        joyment of his guests.  He married ELIZABETH TILGHMAN WALTON and
        left surviving him four children - MARTHA, who married GEORGE
        PHIFER, a gallant boy soldier, and is the mother of a number of
        rising young sons in North and South Carolina and of two daughters.
        Another daughter, ELOISE, married REV. JAMES COLTON, and was the
        mother of MOULTON COLTON, LIZZIE COLTON, and several other children
        who are rapidly rising as educators.  His only surviving son, ISAAC
        T. AVERY, is a prominent lawyer and politician of Burke County.  A
        fourth child is the wife of REV. JOHN A. GILMER, of Newton, N.C.

                                           A. C. AVERY.

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